On The Map
Leaders
Cold War in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe
Detente
Fall of the Soviet Union
100
The United States fought a war in this Southeast Asian country.
What is Vietnam?
100
He was the US President that thought detente failed and the Cold War was a struggle between good and evil.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
100
This President withdrew troops from Vietnam.
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
This word means an easing of tensions between the US and Soviet Union.
What is detente?
100
This was the leader and founder of Solidarity.
Who is Lech Walesa?
200
These are the two major landforms of Southeast Asia.
What is peninsula and archipelago?
200
He was the communist ruler of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
This occurred in Vietnam soon after U.S. troops left.
What is reunification?
200
These are the superpowers of the Cold War.
What is the United States and Soviet Union?
200
This Soviet Leader began the reforms of perestroika and glasnost.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
This is the northern most country of Latin America.
What is Mexico?
300
He was the democratically elected Marxist ruler of Chile.
Who is Salvador Allende?
300
This event in Czechoslovakia highlighted the growing issues of communism.
What is the Prague Spring?
300
The belief that nuclear war would cause the detruction of both superpowers is called this.
What is MAD?
300
This leader visited his homeland of Poland to encourage human rights under communism.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
400
This is one climate found in Southeast Asia.
What is tropical wet, tropical dry, or humid subtropical?
400
She was known as the Iron Lady?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
400
President Johnson sent warships off the coast of what Latin American country to contain communism.
What is the Dominican Republic?
400
This treaty aimed to limit the nuclear weapons of the US and USSR.
What is SALT?
400
This Russian citizen wrote about the horrors of communism, was a political prisoner, and eventually exiled from the Soviet Union.
Who is Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
500
This place in Latin America is currently threatened by ranching, logging, and mining.
What is the Amazon rainforest?
500
He was the non-Communist leader of South Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dien Diem?
500
This event and resolution increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
This Czech leader was expelled from the KSC and demoted after the Prague Spring.
Who is Alexander Dubchek?
500
Name one country that became free after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What is Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia.
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